Ports Dependency management

Hello, I've been noticing some strange behavior with the ports lately. Indeed, following the end-of-life of misc/getopt, I uninstalled it manually via a
Code:
make deinstall clean
and then installed its suggested replacement, devel/util-linux. Just to be sure, I recompiled/installed the port that required this dependency—in my case, textproc/xmlto and everything went fine. However, if I use
Code:
portmaster xmlto
, it still leaves the dependency on misc/getopt. So, my question is: is there a difference in dependency management between manually installing a port and using portmaster? Thanks in advance.
 
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